Legal Writing in Plain English

Garner, B. A. (2001). Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises. University of Chicago Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2001

Link

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3625845.html

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computer_science

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Primes

• Explanatory Overlay Masking Structural Debt
  • Legal drafting: clarifying clauses, defined-terms sections, and "for the avoidance of doubt" provisions that grow to compensate for structurally ambiguous operative language.

    This sourceArgues for redrafting structurally ambiguous operative language rather than accreting defined-terms and "for the avoidance of doubt" clauses; treats clarity as a drafting-structure problem.

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